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[Gac66610]

or they just changed their minds

I have a service on a house that will be fed from the garage, originally I was told the service was no longer going to be overhead, changing to underground.
I ran 2" PVC from the panel to a point outside the house awaiting the underground.
That has changed back to overhead, it will be 4 wire feeders (the house panel will be a sub panel) the house is already sheet rocked, so replacing the PVC would be difficult, but not impossible

my concern is, running 2" IMC through the roof, will the PVC handle the weight of the IMC
I am planning to put 2 or 3 stand off straps to help support the IMC

running the IMC, I now have a bonding issue with it, not sure of the best way to bond it, was thinking of a split bolt off the overhead grounding conductor to a pipe clamp on the IMC above the roof line

house is under the 2006 IRC

any ideas or suggestions?

Thanks

 

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or they just changed their minds

I have a service on a house that will be fed from the garage, originally I was told the service was no longer going to be overhead, changing to underground.
I ran 2" PVC from the panel to a point outside the house awaiting the underground.
That has changed back to overhead, it will be 4 wire feeders (the house panel will be a sub panel) the house is already sheet rocked, so replacing the PVC would be difficult, but not impossible

my concern is, running 2" IMC through the roof, will the PVC handle the weight of the IMC
I am planning to put 2 or 3 stand off straps to help support the IMC

running the IMC, I now have a bonding issue with it, not sure of the best way to bond it, was thinking of a split bolt off the overhead grounding conductor to a pipe clamp on the IMC above the roof line

house is under the 2006 IRC

any ideas or suggestions?

Thanks

I see no problem with the stand off straps being able to support the weight of the IMC, and that is part of the purpose of them. I have run 100' vertical runs of IMC and without the support of the straps it would get pretty heavy for whatever is on bottom end to be able to support it, plus there is weight of conductors inside yet.

I also see no problem with your method of grounding the metal portion of the raceway - exactly what I have done before with isolated sections of metal raceway.